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Closing Broadstairs Christmas Market amid pandemic was in the public interest | Updated: 17:31, 24 January 2021 The eleventh-hour closure of a Christmas market has been defended by local authority chiefs for being in the public interest amid the pandemic. Kent County Council s (KCC) scrutiny committee met earlier today to review the controversial decision to shut Broadstairs Market, Thanet, over safety fears last month. The east Kent district was one of the UK Covid hotspots. The shutdown Christmas market was held at Victoria Parade, in Broadstairs Picture: Martin Apps Cllr Clair Bell (Con), KCC s cabinet member for public health, told the panel: I think this was the right decision to take and was in the public interest. ....
KCC s Tory leader says decision by French to shut border was disproportionate but opposition group leaders disagree | Updated: 11:42, 12 January 2021 The decision by the French to abruptly shut its border to the UK last month has caused a row between councillors of different political colours in Kent. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had revealed a mutant strain of the virus was spreading across England prompting an emergency shutdown of the south east, including London, Kent and Essex, just five days before Christmas. Lorries queuing on the M20 on Christmas Day. Picture: Barry Goodwin More than 50 countries imposed travel bans on the UK, including France, which closed its borders for 48 hours and called for thousands of drivers to have a Covid test before entering the country. ....
Ashford Brexit lorry park anger as government blocks release of travel and environmental information | Updated: 07:45, 24 December 2020 The government has come under fire from Labour county councillors for its refusal to disclose information about traffic disruption and the environmental impact of a post-Brexit lorry park in Ashford. KentOnline has been refused information about the impact of the 66-acre lorry park in Sevington which is under construction and will act as a site for lorries to be diverted to in the event of disruption along the M20. The lorry park won t be fully operational on January 1 But the Department for Transport has rejected a Freedom of Information request for any assessment made on the impact of the lorry park - or the back-up site at the nearby Waterbrook Park estate. ....